Is it possible to do extreme sports with cardiac arrhythmia?
I am 26 years old and diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia. Can I still do competitive sports, such as running and mountaineering? ~ Andrzej
The concept of arrhythmia is very broad and covers a wide variety of cardiac arrhythmias, which can be of extremely different severity in individual patients. The prognosis depends not only on the type of arrhythmia, but also on whether it is symptomatic (e.g., fainting, unconscious) and whether other heart conditions are present. Please visit a cardiologist who will examine you and recommend additional tests: blood tests (potassium, magnesium, thyroid hormones), ECG method. Holter, the ECHO of the heart. In justified cases, there may be indications for an exercise test to check that the arrhythmia is not being provoked by exercise. In some young, trained individuals with no history of heart disease and normal echocardiogram, exercise tends to “quench” the arrhythmia. Some of the forms of cardiac arrhythmias in young people, which are exacerbated by exercise, can be permanently cured by the method of the so-called ablation.
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